[Q] What to do with EMDs with global searches between 20k and 2.7m

I've been doing a lot of research lately on finding available domain names with various postitve factors and I've stumbled on a bunch of EMDs with global exact searches between 20k and 2.7m. Some are trademarks (which I'll avoid), some are mistyped trademarks, some are big celebrity names, some are quite generic, some are niche specific and some are non English. Should I buy them up and resell, set up a subscription service for details of such domains or buy and build on them?

I know people play the domain name flipping game, I am one of them. If a good good, really good EMD is available, you might want to check twice. A s could be the difference. Parkings is not the same as Parking and in occasions it will show you the parking value not the parkings one.

I know people play the domain name flipping game, I am one of them. If a good good, really good EMD is available, you might want to check twice. A s could be the difference. Parkings is not the same as Parking and in occasions it will show you the parking value not the parkings one.

I tried to do something similar, did not work out. I found emd domains with hundred of thousands of searches per month, but there was no market to sell them.

Reasons?

- if a keyword has 300,000 searches per month, there usually is a some seo competition for that kw, and the fact that you owned the EMD was not that significant as a seo advantage in the big scheme of things.

-some keywords, despite high volume, were not commercial enough - name of rock bands for instance, and etc..

-In order to rank the emd domains for their keywords, someone needed to build quite an authority site on that domain and invest a considerable effort (a 5-10 page mns was usually not enough) and people do not like to build authority websites on subjects that are randomly chosen just because they have high searches. So they were not interested to buy the domains.

In the end, i used the domains for my own private network for links.

I did not put too much effort into the business, perhaps that was a reason for failure, maybe you get luckier, i wish you good luck.

I tried to do something similar, did not work out. I found emd domains with hundred of thousands of searches per month, but there was no market to sell them.

Reasons?

- if a keyword has 300,000 searches per month, there usually is a some seo competition for that kw, and the fact that you owned the EMD was not that significant as a seo advantage in the big scheme of things.

-some keywords, despite high volume, were not commercial enough - name of rock bands for instance, and etc..

-In order to rank the emd domains for their keywords, someone needed to build quite an authority site on that domain and invest a considerable effort (a 5-10 page mns was usually not enough) and people do not like to build authority websites on subjects that are randomly chosen just because they have high searches. So they were not interested to buy the domains.

In the end, i used the domains for my own private network for links.

I did not put too much effort into the business, perhaps that was a reason for failure, maybe you get luckier, i wish you good luck.

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Thanks for this, lots to be mindful of here. It's a varied batch of domains, some would be impossible to rank, some are amazon shop compatible and some are quite random so I still think there's potential with this list. The higher end searches though ie. the ones in the millions will probably fit the mould you describe so I think I'll leave those alone.

I'd get them, build a site around them then sell it. You will probably get more from a site with content than just a domain.

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I think though that sometimes a site with no traffic or revenue would put people off more than selling just the domain. Having said that I'm going to experiment with all avenues and try to hone this down into a workable business model.

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